Display stand



July 3. 1928.

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psychology and customers convenience; r a Such effects are sought butjarei' difficult to attain in ordinary localdisplaywhere' show case or counter dressing has to be jldrawings.

i Patented July 1928" I i an my Present i lventionl, am aga i 3 entation for the double {purpose of sales entrusted often to unskilled and inexperi- V a menced help. My solution vlies in. a simple" rack type of display stand on which the packaged goods 'can'be set up withvdisplay accessibility to "continuity and withready the customer.

shown in the accompanying drawing a 'specific embodiment in the form of an upright rotatable display stand well adapted'to sales ends and itself capable of low cost produc- 0 tion to'advertisingpurposes..

Throughout the specificatlon and draw-- 'in'gs like reference} characters are employed corresponding parts and'in the 'to' indicate 's a side elevation'of a display my invention with i 1 I stand in accordance with display indicated. I v 1 'Fig. 2 is a similar viewpartly in section with 'packages'removed.

i 30 3 is a P view ofFig. 1, 1

f V Fig- 4 is a sectional view on th li 1 fF gQ.

. Fi 5 is a sectional detail of the to bearing, and T plates flatfbefore bending in the drawings, I; have-provided a b'ase'l in which is set a vertical spindle 2. On

number. i The display I "These plates 3 are 'preferablymade of a 7 width equal to that of the boxunitor pack to be displayed; In the instance'shown the tion alcove said bracket lips.

merchandise is a squaregarter box B; r

In practice further I make the sides of a As illustrative of my inventionI" have Fig. 6.1-8 a lan view or-one of the: side In the embodiment of my invention shown this is 'rotatably mounted a display member which has -a"plurality of sides or display V faces. .Inthe form shownthere' are four in J 7 member is made up ofplates a 3 ,each having lateral flanges13" "which in} assembly are overlapped with -those of the:

plate next adjacent to form fa rigid corner.

out from the sheet metal of which'the side Atone side ofeach'iboxspace, that' is to iof 'Wirebut maybe variously constructed. I,

trally of thebo'x' B when'in place. a 1; The sides are supported by bearing block is, recessed; as' at 5f and theend of' the' sp 1ndlc 2 is perforatedto receive the in 6. The top blockis covered by aplate.

form f a proj ecting edge on which adverti'ss ingvpr inerchandisingdata D c anbe app'lied Y I Asiwill be apparent to. thoseiskilled-in this art such a display device? has many] advantagesas a sdcalled} silentfsalesman and is so 'inexpensivefto" manufacture that it can be furnished to the retailer with even f small orders of goods which it is ,welll adapted to move rapidly "for repeat-orders; i Variousmodifications may be resorted to}v along the lines suggested by this illustrative construction which may bejadapted' to' a in'ivarious forms.

cure by Letters Patent is: I

a v blocks 5 to which they arefastened and the-spindle 2 passes through: both. upper: andl'ower I vblocks a so "that the display is rotatable for inspection by the customer and the ready "removal of any selected box. The upper The sides are preferably extended some-j it what above the space for the upper box to;

"greatlvariety of merchandise and made up What 11 therefore claim andfdesirejto se and 'multi-faced rack 'rotatably 'mounted r their free ends disposed in retaining rota}.

. 211 A display structure for overlapping faceseach of substantially the width of theu'nit displayed and of a length thereonand comprising" a vpluralityfof face plateseach having angularly "bent marginal {flanges interengaged with-the flanges of the a packaged units, i, comprising a. multi-faced 7 member having:

adjacentplates to'form' tlrecorners, and each V 'havinga plural-ityEoffspaeed' bracketlips; is struck out therefrom, and resilient clip me'm-W v bers anchored in said corners and fhavi'ng substantiallyequal to some multiple of the length of the unit displayed whereby the units are supported on the faces in apparently continuous tiers, supporting meanscarried bysaid faces for: supporting the units in the relation specified, and resilient unit clamps each anchored at one endin' the seam overlap of a pa1r.,of,ad]a cent faces and each bent at its free endito beafsubstanti'ally centrallyeon a display unit. 7 v v n 35A display structurefor packaged units comprising a multi faced rack consisting of a iplurali tyio 'f ifaceplates "overlapped upon one another at itheiii longitudinal edges, each plate of substantiallythe width of theunit displayed and of a length substantially equal to som e multiple of the length of the unit displayed whereby the units are supported on the face plates in apparently continuous tiers, supporting means carried by said face plates for supporting the units in the relation specified, and resilient clamps each I anchored at oneend in the seam overlap of a pair of adjacent plates andeach bent at its'free endto bearj'su'bstatiitia-lly centrally Onadisplayun'it.

In testimony whereof I afiix' my signature. 

